Apart from the large scale destruction, the rains have brought with them the fear of an epidemic outbreak.
The 60 slums in the Bijapur city have already reported cases of H1N1 and dengue, and now the number of people suffering from fever, cold, cough, vomiting is steadily increasing.
Bangalore: Northern Karnataka has gone virtually under water. Unprecedented rain and floods since Wednesday have cut off Raichur, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Koppal, Bellary and Bagalkot districts. Life came to a full stop on Friday with the collapse of road and communication networks and several trains to the region being cancelled.
P M Raghunandan,DH News Service,Bangalore:
Political parties may run short of any serious issue to raise at the hustings. But, severe shortage of drinking water has become an issue of great concern for the electorate across the State, including Bangalore.
Suzlon Energy, one of the leading turbine manufacturers in the world, is entering the State in a big way. The company got a green signal from the Government on Wednesday, to set up an integrated steel project in Bijapur at the cost of Rs 49,720 crore.
Manjunath Sulloli lauds the spirit of community participation among people of Bijapur district and points out that it is this spirit that has helped the district become home to a model World Bank-funded multi-village drinking water project.
The State government is committed to provide potable water from surface-level sources to all urban and rural areas in five years, Chief Minister Yeddyurappa said on Thursday.
Election authorities in Chhattisgarh are carrying out a detailed survey of the tribal population taking shelter in Salwa Judum relief camps in Naxalite-infested Dantewada and Bijapur districts of Bastar region in the state. "We have asked the district collectors of Dantewada and Bijapur to carry out a detailed survey and find out which village the tribals belong to and whether their names figure in the electoral rolls in their respective areas," the state chief electoral officer Alok Shukla said.
